Head-To-Head Survey: Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) vs. QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK)

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) and QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Advanced Micro Devices and QuickLogic, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Advanced Micro Devices	1	8	31	3	2.84
QuickLogic	1	1	2	0	2.25

Advanced Micro Devices presently has a consensus price target of $642.47, suggesting a potential upside of 24.70%. QuickLogic has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 155.47%. Given QuickLogic’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe QuickLogic is more favorable than Advanced Micro Devices.

Profitability

This table compares Advanced Micro Devices and QuickLogic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Advanced Micro Devices	16.77%	14.15%	11.08%
QuickLogic	-80.18%	-45.22%	-27.93%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Advanced Micro Devices and QuickLogic”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Advanced Micro Devices	$34.64 billion	24.28	$4.33 billion	$4.60	112.00
QuickLogic	$13.77 million	10.94	-$14.82 million	($0.77)	-10.68

Advanced Micro Devices has higher revenue and earnings than QuickLogic. QuickLogic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Micro Devices, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

71.3% of Advanced Micro Devices shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of QuickLogic shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Advanced Micro Devices shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of QuickLogic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Advanced Micro Devices has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuickLogic has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Advanced Micro Devices beats QuickLogic on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs processors, graphics products and adaptive computing solutions. Its products serve data center, personal computing, gaming, embedded and other markets. AMD is a fabless chip designer, relying on third-party manufacturing partners to produce its semiconductors. The company’s product portfolio includes EPYC server processors, Ryzen desktop and laptop processors, Radeon graphics products, Instinct accelerators for data center computing, and adaptive chips and systems used in embedded applications.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company that develops low-power, programmable semiconductor solutions and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) intellectual property. Its technology is designed to allow customers to add configurable logic to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and systems-on-chip (SoCs), helping support customization, connectivity, sensor processing and other functions without requiring a separate FPGA device. The company offers eFPGA IP, customer-specific standard products (CSSPs), and related development tools and design services.